On 7/8/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 20:26 +0200, Tom Szilagyi wrote: > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 06:29:03PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > Hallo, > > Tom Szilagyi hat gesagt: // Tom Szilagyi wrote: > > > > > Aqualung: Music Player for GNU/Linux > > > > > > http://aqualung.sf.net > > > > > > Release 0.9beta5 > > > > > > > > > It is our greatest pleasure to announce the fifth official beta > > > release of Aqualung. Some features you'd rarely stumble upon in > > > other players (at least not too many of them at once): > > > > > > * Gapless playback (designed for this from the ground up) > > > > Quick question: Can I choose to play *with* gaps as well? I like gaps, > > I'm used to them from my vinyl collection. > > Well, no. There's no existing option to put gaps between tracks, > though it would be relatively easy to implement. Is this really the job of the player? It seems that if you rip from a CD with gaps the MP3s should contain leading or trailing silence. Otherwise how can the player be expected to know that one batch of tracks is a live performance and should be played back gapless, and another is from a CD and should have 2 second gaps? Lee
I agree Lee. In fact there is an old Quicksilver Album (Happy Trials I think) where the vinyl had no gaps in a 25 minute song. When a CD for it came out it played on my hardware CD player as one long song. If I played this on any Linux player other than Aqualung it put gaps in. This was not good. Aqualung was the only player I found that played the music correctly, as the original. I like the way Aqualung does this today. - Mark
